I’ve cancelled my renewal. There are more modern alternatives at this point

It's funny to see the occasional email regarding responses to this many years after I have completely removed Adobe Illustrator from my workflow.

As a happy user of many pieces of wonderful design software from multiple enthusiastic decentralized teams I would highly encourage others to do the same. From my experience working with the team at Linearity (Curve App) on user feedback, communicating with designers on the Amadine team, and communicating with the Figma, Pixelmator, and Affinity teams over forums, I believe there is much more energy in smaller powerhouses delivering specialized experiences in smaller packages. They also actually respond to your requests. Adobe has been great in the past and at this point has grown to the point where I don't even see the humans or opinions behind it anymore. I highly encourage designers to explore different tools an avenues so we push the envelope of great software experiences further.

This should have been automatic when OSX was created. Now you aren't even synchronized - some Adobe apps do, some do not. Illustrator is one of the big boys too. CMON MAN.

Illustrator does not allow you to open it in full screen

Every major app has native full screen support, I can't believe we are still stuck with window mode or that fake "F" fullscreen instead of having normal fullscreen spaces you can move. It's been so many years since macOS has this feature I don't know what could Adobe be possibly thinking by completely ignoring it. Same with Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere.

Photoshop and premiere pro are native fullscreen, why on earth is not illustrator?

It's super annoying using Adobe apps in different spaces with multiple displays. Sometimes you start Illustrator by clicking an Illustrator file on one display but then the color convert dialog pops up on a different display and sometimes behind other apps or other full screen apps, so you have to flip through all the spaces to find that particular popup dialog to click it off.

Please add this feature. For many years now, Illustrator (among other Adobe apps) frequently gets stuck off-screen when I disconnect or reconnect my laptop to an external display. Adobe apps are the only ones I use that seem to behave this way and it slows down my productivity.

Come on man. Just do it. What a truly pathetic spectacle.

Adding to this. This is basic macOS functionality, and has been around for about 10 years now. It's a core reason why I, and possibly others, take a dim view of Adobe now when many years ago, that was not the case. Well, I mean, that, and sluggish performance every version for no discernible gain, and changing long-standing features right out from under people with no explanation or UI to change it back, but, no full screen really is the cherry.

Every.Single.Other application I use can go into (REAL, Mac) fullscreen mode, and remembers if it was previously in that mode. It opens in another space, so I will have my desktop available. No so in Illustrator, InDesign Photoshop etc. It's disruptive. It's also just... a little bit of a joke. That a professional, expensive suite of apps has decided to go down it's own path with UI... and it's not even better, it's worse!

macOS native full-screen mode is a must-have feature for all Adobe apps that can facilitate UX for literally all Mac users.

This feature is way overdue. To have apps not fully adapted to the macOS window management system sets Adobe behind most other developers, plus they haven't given any reason why this hasn't been implemented.

Please make illustrator go native fullscreen on OSX. Now when I click the button to make it fullscreen it just expands as much as it can but never goes OSX native fullscreen. This prevents me from using that extra space that I need so much on smaller screens...

It doesn't matter what I just write here because Adobe has developed absolutely unique way to ignore any user requests, ideas, feedback, wishes... and doesn't care about any UI standards anymore.

I agree with David Goss. Illustrator's UI should become more like XD (same goes for Photoshop). The inconsistencies in the UI are very annoying and especially embarrassing for a company that provides tools which are supposed to design good user interfaces. Please fix this before you do anything else Adobe. It's only going to get harder if you add more features.

It's boggling that XD supports this, but not Illustrator. Being able to use an application full screen and 3-finger swipe is great on a laptop. Loosing screen real estate for an application like Illustrator is very frustrating.

If that is the case, Adobe should tale a lesson from Affinity. They are able to support both operating systems and support full screen mode for MacOs

Could it be that it's not done simply because a similar option is not available in the Windows operating system?

This really needs to happen. Not having full screen mode totally cripples a workflow. I own the Affinity apps as well (in which this works perfecty) and I find myself using them as much as I possibly can. If work didn't subscribe to Adobe CC, I cretainly would not purchse it myself.

This should be an easy addition. Get your thing together, Adobe.